TOBA TEK SINGH: A proclaimed offender involved in stealing petrol from the Parco Mahmood Kot-Faisalabad-Machike underground pipeline was arrested in Jhang in injured condition after an alleged encounter with the police on Wednesday night.
Police officials claimed that an Ahmadpur Sial police team led by SHO Manazir Lak reached Bangla Yasmin Wala after receiving information about the presence of criminals. Police claimed when the suspects saw the police, they opened fire, which was also returned in self defence.
Police claimed that three suspects tried to flee on a motorcycle but their bike collided with an electric pole due to speeding. One suspect was critically injured whereas his two accomplices escaped. He was arrested and shifted to the Ahmad Pur Sial THQ Hospital.
He was identified as Nabeel Rehman Gill, a proclaimed offender involved in 20 cases of petrol theft from Parco pipelines, police said.
CONVICTED: Gojra Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Mushtaq on Thursday handed down16 years imprisonment along with a fine of Rs300,000 to a drug dealer.
According to the prosecution, the Gojra Saddar police had arrested Amin Siraj of Chak 47 GB, Samundri tehsil in December, 2024 after recovering a large quantity of ice heroin and hashish from his custody.
Prosecution said that he had brought the drugs to Gojra to supply it to narcotic sellers in different areas of the Toba Tek Singh district.
HELD: A Faisalabad FIA team led by SHO Ajmal Hussain arrested a man allegedly involved in the hundi-hawala and illegal foreign exchange business from the Aminpur Bazaar on Thursday.
A statement claimed that Sheikh Usman Ahmed had transferred millions of rupees from Pakistan to China, Dubai and other countries through illegal means and foreign exchange transactions. During the raid, three mobile phones and a car were seized from the possession of the accused.
Further investigation of the case was underway, while information regarding other accomplices involved in the illegal hundi-hawala network, facilitators and about financial transactions was being obtained, FIA said.